Photo credit: Judy Hanson Nelson

To My horse friends:

There is nothing as special to me as letting my body sink deeply into a horses and feeling each others heartbeats. It's very hard to describe, so it's best to try it and feel what magic happen between you.

Elizabeth Graves

Important Press Release!

Important press Release from the  AAEP and AVMA

http://www.aaep.org/press_room.php?term=2012&id=487

I also feel it should include weighted shoes, turn backs, and bands. 

If some horses are able to be animated more naturally ,let it come through due to an individual horses conformation , proper clean training and conditioning of the horse. Good trainers don't need gimmicks to bring out natural gaits in any gaited breed.

It's time to prize good horsemanship not hackmanship.

Liz